RE: External Monitoring Criteria

[Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

At 07:34 AM 3/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Issuing badges to anyone who uses radioactive material
>(other than tritium) is considered by attorneys to be very inexpensive
>insurance against future litigation.

Ah, my favorite subject: defensive dosimetry. In the real world, a measured
zero is infinitely more valuable than an estimated zero, and badging people
to prove you didn't need to badge them actually makes sense. That dosimeter
reading cuts off a lot of arguments, and many companies are willing to
carry the extra cost of badging everyone to have that.


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Bob Flood
Dosimetry Group Leader
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(650) 926-3793
bflood@slac.stanford.edu